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Introduction.
We have created this Privacy Policy in order to demonstrate our
firm commitment to privacy and to disclose our practices in
gathering, using and disclosing personal information in
connection with this Web site. Personal information is
information about a person that includes identifying information
about that person. Although there are links from this Site to
other Web sites, this Privacy Policy applies only to this Site
and not to Web sites operated by others. For example, if you
click on a link to the Web site of one of our partners or
sponsors, the click takes you out of our Site. We are not
responsible for the content or privacy practices of other Web
sites.
1. Openness. We follow a general policy of openness
regarding our privacy practices. This Privacy Policy sets out
the fair information practices that govern the collection,
maintenance, use and disclosure of personal information
regarding visitors who use this Site.
2. Revisions to the Privacy Policy. We may revise this
Privacy Policy from time to time as we add new features or as
laws change that may affect our services. If we make material
changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post a new version
number at the beginning of this Privacy Policy, consisting of
the date (year and month) the Policy was last revised, so that
you will be able to tell when the Privacy Policy was last
changed.
3. Collection of Personal Information. Except as
disclosed in this Policy or as disclosed on other pages in this
site where information may be collected, we do not collect
personal information about visitors to this Site.
a. Web logs. We maintain standard Web logs that
record data about all visitors who use this Site. These logs may
contain:
i. The Internet domain from which you access this Site
(e.g., aol.com, abc.org);
ii. Your Internet Protocol (IP) address. Your computer
is automatically assigned a number which acts as its IP address
when you surf the Internet. Your IP address is either static
(always stays the same) or dynamic (changes from time to time).
A static IP address may be identifiable to you, while a dynamic
address is usually not identifiable.
iii. The type of browser and operating system you use.
iv. The date and time you visited the Site.
v. The pages that you saw on this Site.
vi. The address of the Web site you linked here from.
We use Web log information to help us design our Site, to
identify popular features, and to make the Site more useful for
visitors. Web logs are recorded in sequential files, and we do
not normally try to identify individuals from Web logs or use
Web logs to gather information about individuals. However, we
may use Web logs to identify any person attempting to break into
or damage our Site, and we may share Web log information with
law enforcement agencies if we believe that we have evidence of
a violation of computer security or related laws.
b. Internet Cookies. We may place Internet cookies
on visitors computer hard drives. Internet cookies save data
about individuals, such as their name, user-name and the pages
they visit on our Site. When a visitor with one of our cookies
on his or her computer revisits our Site, we are able to
recognize that computer and tailor our Site to be more helpful
and efficient for that visitor. Also, cookies help us to provide
streamlined services, and to document our transactions with
visitors to this Site. You may have software on your computer
that will allow you to decline or deactivate Internet cookies,
but if you do so, some features of this Site may not work
properly for you.
c. Visitor /Customer Requests for Information. If
you ask a question or make a request through this Web site, we
may store your message and our response for awhile. We may also
use this information, and any information you give to us in
response to a survey on the Site, to send you information about
health-related newsletters, promotional events and upcoming
programs that we think you might be interested in; notices of
enhancements to our services; additional surveys; and to send
you an e-mail version of our physician contact information.
4. Access, Correction, Deletion and Data Integrity.
Requests to access, correct or delete personal information may
be submitted using our contact information. Please note that we
do not consider Web log information to be personal information.
Also, we may not be able to delete or revise information about
you that we have relied upon to provide services to you, or that
we are legally required to maintain.
5. Use and Disclosure of Personal Information. We do
not sell or rent personal information about visitors to this
Site. We do not use or disclose personal information obtained
through this Site except as expressly described in this Policy.
No patient identifying information will be shared or
transmitted on this Site.
a. Uses. We use information obtained from weblogs,
cookies and visitor requests for the purposes described in this
Policy. We also use personal information obtained from this Site
to respond to requests, improve our services, demonstrate the
quality of our services to our auditors and government agencies
that have authority over us, and for the additional purposes
described below.
b. Disclosures. We may disclose personal information
to any person performing audit, legal, operational or other
services for us. Whenever possible, we will require any
recipient of personal information for these purposes to agree in
writing to use the information only for the purpose for which it
was disclosed and to destroy or return it when no longer needed
for that purpose. We may disclose personal information when
required to do so by a subpoena, court order, or search warrant.
Except when deemed by us to be infeasible, we will notify the
individual of a subpoena, court order or search warrant for the
individual information, by e-mail using the e-mail address (if
any) that the individual provided to us.
We may disclose personal information as we deem appropriate to
protect the safety of an individual or for an investigation
related to public safety or to report an activity that appears
to be in violation of law.
We may disclose personal information to protect the security and
reliability of this Web site, and to take precautions against
liability.
We may disclose personal information to any successor in
interest (any company or organization that purchases or
otherwise takes over our assets).
6. Public Forums. From time to time this Site may
contain message boards and/or news groups ("Forums"). Please
remember that any information disclosed in these areas becomes
publicly available. You should exercise caution when deciding to
disclose your personal information in these areas. We do not
maintain or routinely monitor information posted on any message
board or news group on our Site; however, we reserve the right
to remove any postings that we deem inappropriate.
7. Security. We protect the personal information we
have collected from this Site by using industry standard
security precautions against loss and unauthorized access,
destruction, use, modification or disclosure of that
information. We comply with the security safeguards detailed in
our computer security policies and procedures, and routinely
monitor that compliance. When credit card or other financial
information is transmitted over the Internet we use industry
standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption to protect that
information.
8. Children. We do not intend to collect personal
information from children under age 13 and in any event will not
do so without the permission of the child's parent or guardian.
Visitors who wish to participate on our Site and provide
personal information indicating that they are under 13 years of
age are required to provide the e-mail address of their parent
or guardian. We then send an e-mail message to that parent or
guardian alerting them to the child's request to participate on
our Site, and we ask for the permission of the parent or
guardian. If permission is not promptly received, we delete all
information about that visitor from our system as quickly as
possible. No information collected from users under the age of
13 is used for any marketing or promotional purposes whatsoever.
9. Questions, Complaints or Requests to Change Information
If at any time you wish to contact us with a question or
complaint or to exercise any of the rights set out in this
Privacy Policy, or if you want to change any information
collected by us, you may do so by contacting us by e-mail,
telephone, fax, or U.S. Mail, using the information set out
below.
As a high quality network of healthcare providers and healthcare
information on the Web, we are continually trying to improve our
site. We want you and your family to be confident in using
lwpaincenter.com or lakeworthpaincenter.com as your one-stop
pain management resource. We encourage you to contact us with
any suggestions for improving our site so that we can better
serve you in the future. Thank you for visiting with us.
Advertising Policy
Advertisement and Sponsorship Identification
We believe it is important for you to be able to distinguish
advertisements from health information. For this reason,
advertisements and sponsorships are clearly identified as being
separate from our consumer health information.
Advertising Click Through
If you click on an advertisement, you will be leaving the
lwpaincenter.com or lakeworthpaincenter.com Network Partner site
and entering the advertiser's site. Be aware that
lwpaincenter.com or lakeworthpaincenter.com has no control over
the practices of other sites. Your computer may receive cookies
from other sites and you will not be protected by
lwpaincenter.com or lakeworthpaincenter.com’s Privacy Policy.
These sites may place a cookie on your computer for the purposes
of ad tracking and presentation. lwpaincenter.com or
lakeworthpaincenter.com does not share personally identifiable
visitor information with its advertising services.
Lwpaincenter.com or lakeworthpaincenter.com may share anonymous
aggregated statistical information about uses of this Site. |
